26:2H-48. Assessment of availability of financial assistance
To facilitate the offering of such assistance, each such facility shall make an assessment of the extensiveness of the self-pay, private insurance, or medicare capability of each resident no later than 1 week after admission to the facility and on a periodic basis thereafter, provided, however, that no such assessment is made against a resident's will.
L.1977, c. 387, s. 2.